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Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 6 hours) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Jackie realizes sobriety is the ultimate cover for getting high, and now she's saving lives at work, taking care of her kids, and her boyfriend is loving the new her. She's got everyone fooled, but what goes up must come down.
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy, Nigerian-American teen is pulled over by police, shot to death, and immediately awakens, reliving the same day over and over, trapped in a terrifying time loop that forces him to confront difficult truths about his life and himself. Exploring the social issues of racism, police brutality, LGBTQ+ acceptance, mental health, and addiction, confronts these seminal issues, all too prevalent in American society.
Publisher
Walking Shadows
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
75th anniversary ultimate collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Originally released in 1935, this is the first film to fully inform the public of the dangers of habitual marijuana use. Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, manage to entice local high school kids to stop by Mae's apartment to smoke reefer.
5) Pure
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Paul slowly begins to realize that his mother is an addict and, with the help of a local waitress, tries to rescue his mother from her boyfriend/dealer.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julian is a boy with looks, charm, intelligence and a father who sets him up in the record business; he also has a drug habit. His best friend Clay wants to help and is willing to do almost anything for his friend, but Julian is going downhill so fast that he might take his girlfriend and Clay with him.
7) Half nelson
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
8) The corner
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran and father Gary, along with their friends, enemies, and neighbors. Ever present in their world is illicit drugs-- heroin and cocaine-- the need that fuels the business, and the business that fuels the need. Based on the true stories from the lives of the people who live life on a corner in Baltimore.
Series
Imprint volume 64
Language
English
Formats
Description
A band of drug addicts, led by a husband and wife team, resort to robbing drugstores to stay high. They are successful in avoiding capture until their luck begins to run out, and the husband has to accept the fact that he must give up drugs to survive.
10) Sound of metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riz Ahmed [is] ... the volatile Ruben, who has found new purpose as a drummer in a noise-metal duo, playing blistering live shows with his singer girlfriend, Lou. When Ruben suddenly loses much of his hearing, he is launched on a profound odyssey ... as he comes to understand what it means to live as a deaf person and to discover deafness as not a disability but a rich culture and community"--Container.
Publisher
Mr. FAT-W Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mother Gin Sling is the owner of a shanghai casino which, despite her bribes, the local authorities have decided the close under pressure from British financier Sir Guy Charteris. Charteris has his own plans for the property"--Container.
12) Red angel
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
日本語
Description
When Sakura Nishi is dispatched in 1939 to a ramshackle field hospital in Tientsin, the frontline of Japan's war with China, she and her colleagues find themselves fighting a losing battle tending to the war-wounded and emotionally shellshocked soldiers while assisting head surgeon Dr. Okabe conduct an unending series of amputations. As the Chinese troops close in, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Okabe who, impotent to stall the mounting pile...
13) Bigger than life
Series
Criterion collection volume 507
Language
English
Formats
Description
A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
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